2020 in art

The year 2020 in art involves various significant events.

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Events

• January 20 - Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portrait as a Sick Person (August 1889) from the collection of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo is verified by experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam as authentic.[1]
• February 10 - Rembrandt's Portrait of a Young Lady (1632) from the collection of the Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania is announced as authentic having been reassessed after conservation.[2]
• February 11 - David Hockney's 1966 painting The Splash sells for £23.1m at auction at Sotheby's in London.[3]
• February 13 - A Banksy artwork for Valentine's Day appears on the side wall of a house in Barton Hill, Bristol, England.[4]
• March - COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland: The Rebel Bear and others paint street art in Glasgow.[5]
• March 10 - The discovery of Salvador Dalí's painting Purgatory Canto 32 in a Kitty Hawk, North Carolina thrift store is reported.[6]
• March 14 - Paintings by Van Dyck, Annibale Carracci and Salvator Rosa are stolen from Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford, England.[7]
• March 30 - Vincent van Gogh's 1886 painting The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen (on loan from the Groninger Museum) is stolen from the Singer Laren museum in Laren, Netherlands while it is closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands.[8]
• April 15 - Banksy posts on his Instagram account a series of pictures showing stencilled rats causing mayhem in a private bathroom during the coronavirus lockdown.[9]
• May - The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) in San Francisco, California in the United States announces that it will not be accepting new students for the fall 2020 semester ostensibly entailing its closure after 150 years, including having survived the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.[10]
• May 6 - A new Banksy framed artwork, Game Changer, in appreciation of nursing staff is hung in Southampton General Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, later to be auctioned in aid of the health service.[11]
• May 7 - Quentin Blake's large artwork The Taxi Driver is the centrepiece of a one-man exhibition at Hastings Contemporary in England which opened on this to be viewed only remotely due to the coronavirus lockdown.[12]
• May 26 - It is announced that this year's Turner Prize award in the United Kingdom is to be replaced by a bursary for 10 artists which will be announced in July due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[13]
• June 7 - An 1895 statue of Edward Colston, a 17th-century merchant, slave trader, MP and philanthropist (by John Cassidy), is pulled down by British Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol, England.[14]
• June 11 - Fugitive art dealer Inigo Philbrick, accused of swindling artworks valued in excess of $20 million US is apprehended and arrested by U.S. government agents on the South Pacific Island nation of Vanatu and then transported to the U.S territory of Guam to face federal charges.[15][16][17]
• June and July - In Richmond, Virginia, in the United States, following a series of actions taken against monuments to both the leaders of the vanquished Military forces of the Confederate States and one to Richmond African American native son and tennis legend Arthur Ashe, including the emblazoning of the Ashe memorial with the graffiti tags "White Lives Matter" and then "Black Lives Matter" and attempts by crowds to pull down the effigies of the defeated nation's armed forces' field commanders; all of the statues of the military leaders of the Confederacy are removed by the City of Richmond from Monument Avenue where they had been since the first decade of the 20th century, with the exception of the semblance of Robert E. Lee which is on State of Virginia owned land. The Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, moves to remove the statue of Lee but is blocked by a court injunction issued after the filing of a lawsuit.[18][19]
• July - It is announced that the history of Salvator Mundi (c.1500) by Leonardo DaVinci, the most expensive artwork on record ever sold will he the subject of a forthcoming Broadway musical set to take the stage in 2021.[20]
• July 14 - Banksy reveals in a video that he had decorated the interior of a car of London Underground rolling stock with graphics, If You Don't Mask, You Don't Get, relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, subsequently removed by Transport for London.[21]
• July 15 - A statue rendered in black resin by Marc Quinn of a British Black Lives Matter protestor, A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) 2020, is installed clandestinely by the artist on the plinth vacated by overthrow of the Statue of Edward Colston in Bristol without official permission;[22] it is removed from this location 24 hours later by Bristol City Council which tweets "This morning we removed the sculpture. It will be held at our museum for the artist to collect or donate to our collection".[23]
• July 28 - Sotheby's London stages an auction sale, 'Rembrandt to Richter', which includes Paolo Uccello's Battle on the Banks of a River ("probably the Battle of the Metaurus - 207 BCE")[24] in part settlement with the Gutmann family for the work's forced sale by the Nazi Reich in 1942.[25]
• July 30 - Heather Phillipson's sculpture The End on the Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square, London, is inaugurated.[26]

Exhibitions

• Scheduled exhibition dates are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
• February 12 until May 31 - "Pier Paolo Pasolini: Subversive Prophet" at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York.[27]
• March 4 until July 5 - "Gerhard Richter: Painting After All" at the Met Breuer in New York City.[28]
• March 5 until April 4 - "Kara Walker: Drawings" at Sikekema Jenkins & Co. in New York City.[29]
• March 7 until June 1 - "Enchanted Worlds: Hokusai, Hiroshige and the Art of Edo Japan" at the Auckland Art Gallery in Auckland, New Zealand.[30]

Works

• Es Devlin and Machiko Weston - I Saw the World End (virtual installation)[31]
• Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada - Portrait of Dr. Ydelfonso Decoo in Flushing/Corona Park Queens, New York[32]
• Rashid Johnson - "Untitled Anxious Red Drawings"[33]
• Scott LoBaido - "THANK YOU" at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York[34]
• Thomas J. Price - Reaching Out (sculpture)[35]
• Marc Quinn
  • A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) 2020[22]
  • "Viral Paintings"[36]
• The Rebel Bear - "Rotten Apple" (street mural) in Brooklyn, New York City[37]

Deaths

• January 2 - John Baldessari, 88, American conceptual artist
• January 6 - Akbar Padamsee, 91, Indian painter
• January 13 - André Lufwa, 94, Congolese sculptor (Batteur de tam-tam)
• January 17 - Oswald Oberhuber, 88, Austrian artist
• January 19 - James Mollison, 88, Australian arts administrator, director of the National Gallery of Australia (1971–1989) and the National Gallery of Victoria (1989–1995)
• January 27 - Jason Polan, 37, American artist
• February 5 - Beverly Pepper, 97, American sculptor
• February 11 - Anne Windfohr Marion, 81, art patron, co-founder of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
• February 19 - Jack Youngerman, 93, American artist
• February 20 - Peter Dreher, 87, German painter
• March 2 - Ulay, 76, German artist
• March 11 - John Seward Johnson II, 89, American sculptor and art impresario (Grounds For Sculpture),
• March 15 - Wolf Kahn, 92, German born American artist
• March 23
  • Maurice Berger, 63, American curator and critic
  • Paul Kasmin, 60, American art gallerist
  • Idelle Weber, 88, American pop artist
• March 30 - Dr. Evermor, 81, American sculptor and metal artist (Forevertron, House on the Rock)
• April 1
  • Anne Hendricks Bass, 78, American art collector and patron
  • David Driskell, 89, American visual artist and academic
• April 4 - Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, 87, British painter and aristocrat
• April 5 - Daniel Greene. 85, American portrait artist
• April 6 - Helene Aylon, 89, American painter
• April 8 - Mort Drucker. 91, American cartoonist
• April 11 - Gillian Wise, 84, British artist
• April 13
  • William H. Bailey, 89, American painter
  • Glenna Goodacre, 80, American sculptor (Sacagawea dollar, Vietnam Women's Memorial)
• April 14 - Markus Raetz, 78, Swiss painter, sculptor, and illustrator
• April 19 - Peter Beard, 82, American photographer
• April 21 - Tina Girouard, 73-74, American video and performance artist
• April 25 - Zarina, 83, Indian born Anerican artist
• April 29 - Germano Celant, 80, Italian art historian, curator, and critic
• May 4 - Michael McClure, 87, American Beat poet[38][39]
• May 9 - Iepe Rubingh, 45, Dutch performance artist, co-founder of chess Boxing
• May 12 - Astrid Kirchherr, 81, German photographer and artist known for her association with the Beatles[40]
• May 16 - Cliff Eyland, 65, Canadian painter and writer
• May 19 - Susan Rothenberg, 75, American painter (death announced on this date)
• May 19 - Richard Anuszkiewicz, 89, American painter, co- founder of the school of and leading practitioner of op art
• May 20 - Emma Amos, 83, American painter
• May 26 - Peter Alexander, 82, American sculptor
• May 28 -  Gracia Barrios, 92, Chilean painter
• May 31 -  Christo, 84, International and American Environmental, Site-Specific, and Land artist
• June 7 - Manuel Felguérez, 91, Mexican artist
• June 13 - Luther Price, 58, American experimental filmmaker and visual artist
• June 18 - Anna Blume, 83, German photographer (Anna and Bernhard Blume)
• June 26 - Milton Glaser, 91, American graphic designer, creator of the I ❤ NY slogan and co-founder of New York magazine.[41]
• July 2 - Jiří T. Kotalík, 69, Czech art historian, rector of the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (1997–2003, 2010–2014).[42]
• July 12 - Frank Popper, 102, Czech-born Swiss art and technology historian.[43]
• July 15 - George Simon, 73, Guyanese artist
• July 17 - Brigid Berlin, 80, performance artist, photographer, writer, and Warhol superstar
• July 18 - Keith Sonnier, 78, American sculptor
• July 31 - Miodrag Živković, 92, Serbian sculptor
• August 1 - Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara, 87, Palestinian artist.
• August 5 - Elmer Petersen, 91 , American sculptor (World's Largest Buffalo)
• August 7 - Judit Reigl, 97, Hungarian painter
• August 12
  • William Arnett, 81, American art collector and writer
  • August 12 - Sybil Brintrup, 66, Chilean conceptual artist
• August 13 - Luchita Hurtado, 99, Venezuelan-born American painter

References

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2. Dafoe, Taylor (2020-02-10). "A Small Pennsylvania Museum Just Discovered It Has Owned a Rembrandt for 70 Years Without Knowing It". artnet news. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
3. "David Hockney's The Splash fetches £23.1m at auction". BBC News. 2020-02-11. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
4. "Banksy confirms Bristol Valentine's Day artwork is his". BBC News. 2020-02-14. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
5. "Coronavirus: Who is behind Glasgow's Covid street art?". BBC News. 2020-05-18. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
6. "Thrift Store Wood Engraving Print Turns Out To Be Salvador Dalí Artwork". NPR. 10 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
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29. https://hypebeast.com/2020/3/kara-walker-drawings-sikkema-jenkins-and-co-exhibition
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32. https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/this-giant-new-nyc-mural-is-a-tribute-to-the-citys-healthcare-workers-052820
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34. https://www.silive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/artist-praises-medical-professionals-with-huge-thank-you-signs-outside-staten-island-hospitals.html
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36. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/may/20/artist-creates-paintings-from-news-stories-chronicling-covid-19-crisis
37. https://streetartnews.net/2020/03/the-rotting-apple-by-the-rebel-bear-in-brooklyn-new-york.html
38. Rauschenberg Foundation
39. Art Scene Rebels of San Francisco
40. Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (15 May 2020). "Beatles photographer Astrid Kirchherr dies aged 81". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
41. Milton Glaser, designer of iconic ‘I ♥ NY’ logo, dies at age 91
42. Zemřel emeritní rektor a dlouholetý pedagog AVU, doc. Jiří Tomáš Kotalík (in Czech)
43. FRank Popper (1918-2020)

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